Nancy Karraker holds a PhD in Conservation Biology from the State University of New York and is currently working as an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island.

Nancy arrived in Indonesia in November 2017 to start her six-month project under the US Fulbright Scholar grant entitled “Assessing Populations of a Threatened and Heavily Traded Turtle in Indonesia.” She will study the ecology and population biology of the Southeast Asian box turtle in and around Rawa Aopa National Park and document trade of the species in Sulawesi. Through her research, Nancy hopes to determine how well this turtle is protected in the national park and determine if collection for trade is impacting populations. The collaborating institution for her research in Indonesia is Institut Pertanian Bogor.

Grant is completed in May 2018.